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5 Elasticsearch Disadvantages You Should Know

Since its initial release in 2010, Elasticsearch has grown into the most popular enterprise search engine with use cases that range from web crawling and website search to application performance monitoring and security log analytics. But despite its widespread adoption and success, Elasticsearch does have some notable disadvantages that you should consider - especially if you’re envisioning a high-scale deployment with a large amount of daily ingestion.

Recapping KubeCon North America 2023

If you missed KubeCon North America 2023 in Chicago, or you were there and spent more time in the “hallway tracks,” you may have missed some of the big news that came out of the show. We covered the big happenings in the open source cloud native and observability realm in the latest episode of OpenObservability Talks!

Introducing Responsive Pipelines from Mezmo

The ability to swiftly resolve incidents is central to SREs responsible for a service's reliability and its users' satisfaction. Mezmo has recognized this need and, at Kubecon, unveiled an innovative solution: Mezmo Responsive Pipelines. Responsive Pipelines enable users to pre-configure a Pipeline to respond automatically in the case of an incident.

Transform Your Kubernetes Troubleshooting With Powerful Data Correlations

As developers and engineers, we're all too familiar with the manual labor of connecting disparate data points—metrics, logs, events and resource status. We're also familiar with a continual need to simplify and unify these elements into a seamless troubleshooting experience. This on-demand webinar looks at how data correlation approach provides a holistic view of complex system interactions and can move you from issue awareness to full resolution without juggling different tools or performing mental gymnastics. All on a single dashboard!

OpenTelemetry Webinars - The Trace API

Join Nica and Srikanth to talk in detail about the OpenTelemetry Trace API. We'll talk about adding spans, events, attributes and other extra info, whether it's really possible to replace logs with traces, and more More about SigNoz: SigNoz - Monitor your applications and troubleshoot problems in your deployed applications, an open-source alternative to DataDog, New Relic, etc. Backed by Y Combinator.

OpenTelemetry Webinars - The Open Agent Management Protocol

Open Agent Management Protocol (OpAMP) is the emerging open standard to manage a fleet of telemetry agents at scale. Join Nica and Srikanth as we discuss recent updates to the standard and how you can remotely manage the OpenTelemetry collector with OpAMP. SigNoz helps developers monitor applications and troubleshoot problems in their deployed applications. SigNoz uses distributed tracing to gain visibility into your software stack.

Aggregating Logs From Microservices-Best Practices

Depending on where you are on your journey with microservices, you may have noticed visibility into the system can be a bit tricky at times. Well, there’s good news. Not knowing what’s going on in the system is a solvable problem. One of the first things you can do is get your logs in order. And one of the best ways of doing so is aggregating your logs into a single logging service.